{"id":870611,"date":"2026-08-25T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:06:10","slug":"hayley-preen-and-alex-miller-claim-uci-gravel-world-series-wins-and-african-titles-at-khomas100-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870611\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Preen and Alex Miller claim UCI Gravel World Series wins and African titles at Khomas100 for second year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-3dc38abe-a027-11f1-bb2a-052f0009e9d8\">For a second year running Alex Miller (Swatt Club) and Hayley Preen (ChemChamp Honeycomb) claimed victory at the Khomas100<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/race-homes\/uci-gravel-world-series-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/race-homes\/uci-gravel-world-series-2026\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"pro-cycling\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/race-homes\/uci-gravel-world-series-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> UCI Gravel World Series<\/a> race along with the African gravel titles.<\/p>\n<p>Preen, who has just delivered a fifth at Leadville 100, dominated in the women&#8217;s elite race, crossing the line in the 140km race from Namibia&#8217;s Windhoek to the Gross Barmen Resort in 4:59:31. The Life Time Grand Prix competitor crossed the line 13:07 ahead of Vera Looser, while just behind Namibian champion Anri Greeff took third.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-3dc38abe-a027-11f1-bb2a-052f0009e9d8-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">It was a tight battle in the elite men&#8217;s competition, with Miller taking the duel with Marco Joubert (Toyota Specialized Imbuko) right to the line, while Jordan Schleck (Canyon x DT Swiss All Terrain) took the final podium spot 4:51 later.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos FromCyclingnews<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Came back home to Namibia for one main goal: defend the African Gravel title and yesterday I managed to do just that,&#8221; said Miller in a post on social media. &#8220;Nice dice in the end with SA gravel champ Marco Joubert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The round across the fast open roads and demanding climbs was one of two UCI Gravel World Series races last weekend, with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/toki-sawada-and-shu-wei-hsu-claim-first-uci-gravel-world-series-race-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/toki-sawada-and-shu-wei-hsu-claim-first-uci-gravel-world-series-race-in-japan\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"pro-cycling\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/toki-sawada-and-shu-wei-hsu-claim-first-uci-gravel-world-series-race-in-japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HYSK Gravel Classic in Japan<\/a> delivering the first race of the series in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 elite men<\/p>\n<p>Position<\/p>\n<p>Riders<\/p>\n<p>Time<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Alex Miller<\/p>\n<p>4:15:26<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Marco Joubert<\/p>\n<p>+01<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Schleck<\/p>\n<p>+4:51<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Travis Stedman<\/p>\n<p>+4:52<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Lood Goosen<\/p>\n<p>+7:21:62<\/p>\n<p>Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 elite women<\/p>\n<p>Position<\/p>\n<p>Riders<\/p>\n<p>Time<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Hayley Preen<\/p>\n<p>4:59:31<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Vera Looser<\/p>\n<p>+13:07<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Anri Greeff<\/p>\n<p>+13;09<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Bishop<\/p>\n<p>+24:00<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Belinda van Rhyn<\/p>\n<p>+34:69<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a second year running Alex Miller (Swatt Club) and Hayley Preen (ChemChamp Honeycomb) claimed victory at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-870611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}